Starke T. Miller

For right now, I have been thrown off of Spacebook. It seems someone opened an account on Instagram in my name, and they posted content against Spacebook's community standards. So, they took down Starke Miller and Miller Civil War Tours. The appeal system looks like a joke.

This gravestone, front and back, shakes me up every time I read it. I hope it shakes you up too!

I present to you a relic from the LAST Battle of the Civil War. This is a 37mm, long range, tear gas projectile. Notice the folding fins on the rear. It was picked up on the campus of Ole Miss, in 1962, after the James Meredith riot the night before. Some of the old alumni send…

"On the 17th the Van Dorn Reserves, of Aberdeen (Mississippi) were mustered into service. Their guns are Colt's Five Shooting Rifles, and their uniform is red jeans." They became Company I, of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. They fought in the East with the Army of…

SOMEBODY TOLD ME COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS COMING BACK SOON??? WELL, HOTTY TODDY!!!

HERE IS ONE OF "my boys" Calvin R. Myers - UM Class of 1860 - University Grey I have chased (researched) them for 35 years. Like so many of them, I have stood next to Calvin Myer's grave, stood on his old home site (burned), I have gone to school in the same College…

WILLIAM FAULKNER on the TIME MAGZINE COVER of JANUARY 1939 This cover was in honor of Faulkner's 15th book, The Wild Palms. A sentence in the article says, He "lives about as close to the heart of the South as it is possible to get - in Oxford, Mississippi" I keep tellin' y'all…

WILLIAM FAULKNER'S GRAVE IN OXFORD'S St. PETER'S CEMETERY His gravestone is on the right edge of the green historical sign, just 20 steps away.

WILLIAM FAULKNER DRANK JUST A LITTLE BIT, WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR!

WILLIAM FAULKNER'S FUNERAL - IN OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI in 1962 When Mr. Faulkner died, a service was held at his house for a few family and close friends. Shelby Foote was one of the close friends there that day. After that service at Rowan Oak, Faulkner's body was taken to St.…

All is well with me. I have neglected this page because I have been so busy with Spacebook. Right now, Spacebook is demanding I send them proof that I am me, in the form of a video. I don't have a camera on my desktop computer. I do have one on my ancient laptop. I have never…

The University of Mississippi - Junior Medical Class of 1917 And their "special" student, young Dr. Bones in the front row, center! Oh, those Wild and Wacky young Doctors! The old, Ole Miss annuals are a HOOT!